The Marshall Plan: Being Good to Be Bad is a compilation of decades trying to fight off weight gain due to overeating and overindulging. My husband and I joke, we are on the see-food diet: put it in front of us, and it ll be gone. But when our pants got excruciatingly tight, and we even had to buy bigger jeans, something had to give; and giving in was not the choice we wanted to make.

Let s face it, we like to eat. And I bet you do to. Aside from eating being an integral component to live, it s a huge element in our social life, and sometimes we fill our bellies when it s really our...